List of youth programs in church

Every church wants to increase the number of young people in its congregation. Tim Gibson asks a range of experts how best to do it.

Ask a church member what they most want from their minister or priest and you’ll very often encounter the same reply: “We want more young people in our church.”

For many congregations, children and young people are viewed as a holy grail.

Teenage ministry topics

Get them through the door and you’ll have a vibrant worshipping community with a long future ahead of it.

But as any church leader will tell you, attracting young people to church is easier said than done. So how do you go about drawing them in?

And, more importantly, how do you keep them engaged?

We asked a variety of youth workers for their advice, and the responses were strikingly consistent. So, with a view to helping you evangelise the next generation of Christian disciples, here’s a distillation of what we heard.

Authenticity matters more than anything else

If there’s one theme that emerged time and again, it was this: churches need to be characterised by authenticity if they are to appeal to young p